Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★, sentence 6
Proxima Centauri is about 4.2 light years away, Sirius about 8.6, Vega about 25 and Polaris about 430, so their light left them that many years ago.
Who acts: Proxima Centauri, Sirius · What happens: be, leave, light · To what, where: kilometres
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★» of the space course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proxima Centauri, Sirius), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proxima | proxima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Centauri | compound |
| 2 | Centauri | Centauri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 away | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 away | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 4.2 | advmod |
| 5 | 4.2 | 4.2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 years | compound |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 away | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 left | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 10 | Sirius | Sirius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 left | nsubj |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 8.6 | advmod |
| 12 | 8.6 | 8.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Sirius | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Vega | punct |
| 14 | Vega | vega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sirius | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 25 | advmod |
| 16 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Vega | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Polaris | cc |
| 18 | Polaris | Polaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sirius | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 430 | advmod |
| 20 | 430 | 430 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Polaris | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sirius | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 left | advmod |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 light | nmod:poss |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | nsubj |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 left | obj |
| 27 | that | that | ADV | _ | 28 many | advmod |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 years | amod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 25 left | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Proxima Centauri | year | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past | Sirius 8.6 and Vega 25 and Polaris 430 | kilometres = kilometre | ago property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | light | Sirius | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:space:032-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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